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Richard A. Sugarman
Assistant General Counsel
Boston Medical Center
What’s your current position and primary practice field(s)?
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On Thursday, March 31st, we will host UMass alumni attorneys Nicholas Triano and Joshua Grey, who will speak about their careers in Patent and Intellectual Property Law. Attorney Triano graduated from UMass in 1983 with degrees in Biochemistry and Chemistry. After several years as a bench chemist, he went on...

This is the latest entry in our new series of profiles of lawyer-alumni, in which I ask attorneys to respond to questions about their career paths. If you’re an alum who’d like to be profiled, please just send me an email. You don’t have to...

Elizabeth Pugh
Sociology ’71, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law ‘78
General Counsel, United States Library of Congress
How did you get here – what led you to this field and practice setting?
In 1971, as a senior at UMass, I was Chair of the Student Union Governing Board, and had the chance to meet the...

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Eric J. Weinstein
Sole Pracitioner
What’s your current position and primary practice field(s)?
I am a sole practitioner with my own law office in Framingham, Massachusetts. For the first 15 years of practice, I focused on criminal law defense and appellate work, as well as real estate related...

We’ve got a great group of alumni lawyers lined up for the Fall 2015 edition of Meet the Law, our speed networking event for prospective lawyers (coming up Wednesday, October 14th at 6:00 pm). Check out the list of attorneys, and don’t forget to register in advance here.
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This coming Thursday, you’ll have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with a number of UMass alumni who are currently practicing attorneys in a variety of fields. To maximize the opportunity for individual connections, we will use a “speed-networking” format. Small groups of students will meet with each alumnus/a...

From lawyer-alum Adrianne Zahner (STPEC, Women’s Studies ‘99, Chicago-Kent College of Law ‘02):
Q: Should you go to law school if you’re interested in starting a business?
A: Maybe.
After two federal clerkships and several years of practice in a BigLaw firm, I founded and now run...